It is indeed sad. Fortunately, it's mostly only the slash dot crowd that ishaving trouble thinking outside the box. The popularity of the Pi isbringing millions of folks to the world of Linux for the first time andintroducing them to an enterprise class OS that they have never experienced.The popularity of Unix was due to the fact that most universitys had Unixbecause it was free and all the CompSci students got to take that knowledgeout into the world when they left. This will happen again with Linux on thePi and might even result in a real "year of the Linux desktop".

My problem with the Raspberry Pi is that everything is late, because the foundation members overestimate their capabilities. They announce things that only come to fruition dramatically later or never at all (Where is my Android, Liz? You said you had it running how long ago? And now won't even tell us why you won't release?) There is no actual openness. They do things, then they tell us what they did, and we'd better like it.

This would all be OK if they weren't pretending to have an open process and platfo

Stuff looks promising indeed, it's just sad that so many people refuse to even consider the possibilities.

I will admit that there are plenty of possibilities, as there are with every embedded platform/microcontroller that I have either designed or utilized in my research over the years. However, the Raspberry Pi, while nice for some, is nothing about which people should be constantly harping week after week, especially on Slashdot.